Expectedly good sniffer – wireshark
by admin on Aug.11, 2011, under General
I’ve tried Ethereal a couple years ago. This tool allowed me to find an interesting bug in IBM MQ 7.0.0.01 (not sure about the version). The problem was that queue had no default code-page set, while earlier versions used to have it defined to 829 or something. I spent two days debugging the app, on our system everything worked fine, but customers mainframe fad no default code-page either. So I took Ethereal and found difference in the messages header of MQ 6 and 7.
Today I stuck in debugging again. Since last time I was using Ethereal it was renamed to Wireshark. And again it allowed me to find the bug, mine this time.
So, I’d recommend this app as a powerful but easy to use network protocol analyser.